Call for Papers

The 2014 Deepwater Drilling and Completions Conference Program Committee invites you to submit a paper proposal. The deadline for paper proposal submissions is 10 January. View letter from Chairpersons »

Topics

• Deepwater well design
• Wellbore construction
• Deepwater drilling challenges
• Innovative technologies
• Drilling fluids for deepwater
• Pore pressure prediction and determination
• Predicting likely reservoir behaviour
• Deepwater well control planning, procedures and equipment
• Decision making and support systems
• Relief well planning and drilling
• Shallow water flows and shallow gas
• Drilling performance optimization
• Drilling vibration management
• Hole openers and hole opening operations
• Wellbore stability
• Wellbore strengthening
• Drilling of trouble zones
• Drilling and casing salt
• Directional drilling through evaporites
• Creep and creep management in evaporites
• Tar mat management
• Casing drilling
• Managed pressure drilling
• Dual gradient drilling
• Casing and tubing for deepwater wells
• Casing handling operations and equipment
• Expandable casing and monobore wells
• Trapped annular pressure
• Deepwater cements and cementing